1kyle Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Hi guysHere's a really EASY way of making a permanent archive of your music without needing loads of hard discs.These days you might have really large music collections --copying and backling up with Windows Explorer isn't a satisfactory option any more.As for the SS library(which I only use as a 1-time conversion process -- I never store music in it permanently) this cannot span more than one volume and the Data Base is easily broken.What I use now is a nice backup program ( It can also do a "Bare metal restore of Disk images as well) is Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com)I have all my music stored as FLAC --no probs to convert to any format whatsoever and run the backuo to copy to BLU RAY discs. Multiple Disc spanning is no problem and each BLU RAY disc holds 50GB of data so 20 Discs have enough space for 1TB of data --that's al awful lot of music even encoded in FLAC (120 complete CD's in Flac take around 28 GB).The acronis program will just prompt for a new disk when required both on backup and restore.You can also restore / backup idividual or multiple files and directories.It also does "Disk Imaging" so you can backup / restore at the Disk or Partition level and you can create a bootable rrecovery disk.The program will also backup / restore to removable hard disks etc --usefil when manipulating LARGE directories.I also backup and restore the OS this way as well --I always keep my OS on a small separate partition (whether it's linux, Windows or whatever) and keep data on other disks / partitions.Cheers-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srizvi1 Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 hey thanks for the advice. I've been wanting to get rid of all my CDs for a while now, but have always wondered what the best way to do it is. I'm mainly a mac guy and have always wondered what the best way to preserve the most quality would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kino170878 Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 (edited) Good advice. I was wondering what blu-ray recorder you are using? Edited August 5, 2008 by kino170878 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrin Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Recordable Blu-ray discs still have to prove their reliability and durability. While recordable DVD discs have already done this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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